Can't import new save

Hi all,

I was playing Cave Story at the SG level. After watching a youtube video in order to figure out how to get past that first part, I realized the player had 50 health, whilst I had only 47. I quickly realized I had missed a life capsule and just went to grab a save from the CS tribute site. However, I can't get the new save to load. I put it where I believe you are supposed to no avail. If it helps, I installed the game via the deluxe package installer.

Thanks,
Matthew

 

What is the save file called? Its exact name.

 

What is the save file called? Its exact name.

Huh? If you mean the one I DL'd I renamed profile.dat.

 

And it's in the cavestory folder? If it is try deleting the .dat from the name.

 

Tried that. It changed the file type from Dat to File, which is the placeholder name for a file that does nothing. I'm uploading a vid to Youtube now to show exactly what the problem is.

 

Deleting the .dat would work if you had extensions hidden, but it seems you don't...

 

And here's the video: http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1xTNgtmBE

Hope it can help my situation

EDIT: Dammit the quality is really bad. I will annotate it. Will remove link until that's done.

EDIT: Done

 

Hmn...

1st scenario: The only difference between your save and the one you downloaded is that the latter has 3 more hp right? It's unlikely but maybe you didn't notice the hp? (I know its unlikely but I'm just thinking of every possible problem)

2nd scenario: Why wasn't there a profile.dat in there at first? maybe you should try searching for the original profile.dat and put the new one where it is. That'd be wierd though because its supposed to be in the cavestory folder. Wouldn't be too hard just use the search function to search your cavestory folder only.

If everything else fails maybe you should reinstall cave story so everything is from scratch and put the profile there.

 

Hmn...

1st scenario: The only difference between your save and the one you downloaded is that the latter has 3 more hp right? It's unlikely but maybe you didn't notice the hp? (I know its unlikely but I'm just thinking of every possible problem)

Nope, that's not it. First thing I thought of too

2nd scenario: Why wasn't there a profile.dat in there at first? maybe you should try searching for the original profile.dat and put the new one where it is. That'd be weird though because its supposed to be in the cavestory folder. Wouldn't be too hard just use the search function to search your cavestory folder only.

That's the thing. No file named profile.dat exists on my computer. It's absolutely bizarre.

If everything else fails maybe you should reinstall cave story so everything is from scratch and put the profile there.

Will try that as a lst resort. See if I can't get a few opinions first

 

I think when you download the game there is no profile.dat. It doesn't appear until you actually save your game.

But unless you got through the game without ever saving, that couldn't be the problem...

 

I think when you download the game there is no profile.dat. It doesn't appear until you actually save your game.

But unless you got through the game without ever saving, that couldn't be the problem...

Yea. Still haven't figured it out yet.

 

I have a similar problem. I tried to find the save file to copy it on my new PC and continue the game where I left off. But there's no profile.dat to be found in the folder.
I know it must be somewhere, since the game loads correctly, but I've tried full system searches for it, with no results.
Maybe it's got something to do with Vista?

 

ok, it seems i found it. it was on a hidden folder: C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Cave Story Deluxe\CaveStory\Profile.dat